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Corruption:Cantone in Podgorica, cooperation with Montenegro

Sun, 25/06/2017 - 18:34

(ANSA) - PODGORICA - Italy's fight against corruption is a
model in Montenegro: a cooperation project developed by ANAC
(Italy's National Anti-corruption Authority) is going to get
started in Podgorica on Monday. The goal is to support the
beginning of the new local Authority founded to prevent
corruption a couple of months ago in the former Yugoslav
republic. The starting point will be a press conference that
will be attended by Montenegro's Justice Minister Zoran Pazin,
European Affairs Minister Andrija Pejovi and the chairman of the
ANAC, Raffaele Cantone. In the afternoon, Cantone will give a
speech in a meeting attended by university students, focusing on
the role played by 'white collars' in the most recent economic
and financial criminal cases. Funded by the EU, the twinning
project named "Support the implementation of integrity measures"
will last 18 months and will involve ANAC representatives and
experts, who will support the Montenegrin colleagues helping
them implement and organise anti-corruption measures in the
public contract sector. These twinning projects are a kind of
bilateral 'twinning' between EU member countries and candidates
to EU membership, in view of the EU's eastward enlargement
involving the former Yugoslav republics, the so called "Berlin
process", and they are aiming at strengthening the rule of law,
anti-corruption fight and integrity measures in the Balkan
countries. Montenegro took significant steps in the last months:
after gaining independence in 2006, the Balkan country joined
NATO on June 5, thus becoming the 29th member country of the
Atlantic Alliance. ANAC is developing cooperation projects not
only in Montenegro, but also in Serbia, and at Trieste summit on
July 12 a forum attended by national anti-corruption authorities
will take place.
(ANSA).

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